"What Brought on the French Revolution?" By H.A. Scott Trask is at http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=1489  .Mr. Trask talks about the causes of the French Revolution. There were many causes, but the fiscal and credit crisis played a role in it. "Inflation and the French Revolution: The Story of a Monetary Catastrophe." By H.A. Scott Trask is at http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=1504  .Mr. Trask talks about the economy, inflation, the national debt, etc. He also talks about the Assignat. It helped to bring on the Terror and set French progress back a generation. "William Tell, Tax Rebel" by Adam Young is at http://www.mises.org/fullarticle.asp?control=1478&id=68  .Mr. Young talks about William Tell, the Swiss hero, got started in the tax rebellion. "Jacobin Yankees" by Dr. Clyde Wilson is at http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/wilson9.html  .Dr. Wilson compares the Jacobins of the French Revolution, to the Yankees of the 1860's. The Jacobin Party won the war and then seized power. The Yahoo!education link for JACOBIN is at http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entries/70/j0007000.html  .Jacobin is a radical or extreme leftists. Teresa